The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC), as­sist­ed by the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion and the Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP), held con­sul­ta­tions with the main po­lit­i­cal par­ties from Mon­day to yes­ter­day on is­sues in­clud­ing the im­po­si­tion of spend­ing lim­its on par­ty (and can­di­date) cam­paign ex­pen­di­tures.An EBC re­lease stat­ed that was the sec­ond wave of con­sul­ta­tions in con­nec­tion with the reg­is­tra­tion and fund­ing of po­lit­i­cal par­ties fol­low­ing a na­tion­al sym­po­sium last De­cem­ber.

Par­ties in­clud­ed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP), Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion for the Peo­ple (TOP), Na­tion­al Joint Ac­tion Com­mit­tee (NJAC), Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) and In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty (ILP).Their views were al­so as­cer­tained on the es­tab­lish­ment of a le­gal re­quire­ment to reg­is­ter po­lit­i­cal par­ties, the im­po­si­tion of lim­its on con­tri­bu­tions to po­lit­i­cal par­ties and can­di­dates and their sources.

Dis­cus­sions al­so fo­cused on im­ple­men­ta­tion of pub­lic di­vul­ga­tion of re­ports on both ex­pen­di­tures and con­tri­bu­tions and the in­ves­tiga­tive and pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al pow­ers re­quired to give ef­fect to those mea­sures as an aid to the draft­ing of leg­isla­tive pro­pos­als for sub­mis­sion to Gov­ern­ment, ac­cord­ing to an EBC re­lease.Jean-Pierre Kings­ley, who held the of­fice of Chief Elec­toral Of­fi­cer of Cana­da from 1990 to 2007, and who was al­so a for­mer pres­i­dent of the In­ter­na­tion­al Foun­da­tion for Elec­toral Sys­tems (IFES) and cur­rent­ly a se­nior fel­low at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ot­tawa, fa­cil­i­tat­ed the con­sul­ta­tions.